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The Whitehead torpedo was the first self-propelled or "locomotive" torpedo ever developed. [a] It was perfected in 1866 by British engineer Robert Whitehead from a rough design conceived by Giovanni Luppis of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in Fiume. [7] It was driven by a three-cylinder compressed-air engine invented, designed, and made by Peter ...
German G7a(TI) torpedo at the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum in Oslo. The G7a(TI) was the standard issue Kriegsmarine torpedo introduced to service in 1934. It was a steam-powered design, using a wet heater engine burning decaline, with a range of 7,500 metres (24,600 ft) at 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph) speed.
The amount of fuel that can be burned by a torpedo engine (i.e. wet engine) is limited by the amount of oxygen it can carry. Since compressed air contains only about 21% oxygen, engineers in Japan developed the Type 93 (nicknamed "Long Lance" postwar) [42] for destroyers and cruisers in the 1930s. It used pure compressed oxygen instead of ...
The weapon has a modular design that includes 2–4 silver-zinc oxide battery modules and is able to achieve a range of more than 50 km (27 nmi) and a speed exceeding 92.6 km/h (50 kn) powered by a high frequency permanent magnet motor, with a closed-loop cooling system independent from the environment.
Solid propellent piston engine: Mark 46 Mod.1 ... Supercavitating torpedo high-test peroxide/kerosene rocket: 370 km/h (200 kn) for 15 km (16,000 yd) Varunastra
Even the extremely reduced post-Civil War United States Navy was involved in torpedo development; and established a Naval Torpedo Station in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1870. The first vessel sunk by self-propelled torpedoes was the Turkish steamer Intibah , on 16 January 1878, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 .
The Martin T4M was an American torpedo bomber of the 1920s. A development by the Glenn L. Martin Company of their earlier Martin T3M, and, like it a single-engined biplane, the T4M served as the standard torpedo bomber aboard the aircraft carriers of the United States Navy through much of the 1930s.
The TIV was not an ordinary straight-running torpedo, it ran at 37 km/h (20 kn) for 7,500 m (8,200 yd) and was the world's first operational acoustic homing torpedo, since it was introduced in March 1943, the same month and year as the American Mk-24 "Mine" acoustic homing torpedo.